Interview with English composer Edward Rushton : his brief autobiography; reason for writing music in Switzerland; views on the aesthetic gap between Britain and Switzerland; influence of his stay in Switzerland on his music.

Explores the career of composer and conductor Erich Schmid. Brief information on his autobiography; influence of Arnold Schoenberg on Schmid's career; information on the compositional techniques of Schoenberg; relationship ...

Kloppers, Elsabe (Elizabeth Catharina)(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)

The question of music ministry has become a focal point in the Dutch Reformed Church. The debate arises primarily from discontent about rigid and uninspired musical practices in the church. These practices are promoted ...

Interview with Scottish composer and pianist Ronald Stevenson, on the indigenous music traditions of South Africa. Factors which led him to move to South Africa; description of students at the University of Cape Town in ...

The Afrikaans author Hennie Aucamp employs performing music artists prominently as a topic in ten of his short stories. Some artists portrayed had been capable of performing music long ago. These characters are usually ...

Hubert du Plessis has composed 77 songs, thirteen using English texts: poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (3), John Fletcher (3), Shakespeare (3) and John Webster (2), as well as anonymous poems (2). The composer has now ...

The article discusses the controversy surrounding the visit of Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister to South Africa during the apartheid era. Journalist Antje Müller scrutinized the first major success of the composer in ...

I am nurtured by indigenous African musical arts education philosophy and practice, and encountered literary music education and scholarship in adulthood. It is with dual musical sensibilities that I ponder the human mission ...

Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph is undoubtedly South Africa's most eminent female art music composer. Her compositional output numbers more than seventy works, covering most musical genres, from the large scale symphony to chamber, ...